and that they had by the hands of the lawless Romans put him to death, were facts well known to the auditors; but that Jesus had been delivered up to them in accordance with a predetermined purpose of God, was news to them; and that God had raised him from the dead they did not believe; both these latter statements, therefore, needed proof, and Peter proceeds to give the proof in a way both formal and conclusive. He cites first a passage in which David had very clearly predicted a resurrection of